Agrourbanism (eBook)

Tools for Governance and Planning of Agrarian Landscape

Enrico Gottero (Herausgeber)

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2018 | 1st ed. 2019
VIII, 270 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-95576-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book provides a much needed overview of the agrourbanism topic in the context of territorial studies. It carefully looks at rural, urban, periurban farming in both professional and unprofessional capacities as one of the main sustainable forms of land use and management. This cutting edge text explores the various forms of agricultural and urban planning, as well as the main innovations that the agro-urban approach entails in terms of governance, spatial dimensions and functions. Agrourbanism provides a breadth of information and serves as a practical study of concerns facing policy and decision makers, planners and landscape managers, as well as farmers, managers of protected areas, local authorities and local action groups.  As such this book is suitable as a course accompaniment to provide an overview of the complexity of agro-urban issues.

Enrico Gottero is lecturer in Landscape and Regional Planning at the Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning (Politecnico di Torino), as well as researcher at the Institute of Economic and Social Research of Piedmont (IRES Piemonte, Italy). His main interests focus on the interaction between agriculture and rural-agrarian landscapes, urban-rural linkages, farmland preservation, urban agriculture, agri-food policies and practices. He is also author of several publications on these topics, including at international level.

Inhalt

Contents 6
Editor and Contributors 8
1 Approaching a Vision of Agrarian Urbanism: Innovative Domains, Key Definitions and Concepts 10
References 14
Agrourbanism from a Global Perspective 17
2 Farmland Preservation and Rural Development in Canada 18
2.1 Introduction 18
2.2 Farmland Loss and Urban Development: The Canadian Context 20
2.3 Ontario: Policy Responses to Population Growth and the Protection of High Quality Farmland 21
2.3.1 The Provincial Policy Instruments 22
2.3.1.1 The Planning Act and Provincial Policy Statement (PPS) 22
2.3.1.2 Smart Growth in Ontario 23
2.3.1.3 Greenbelt Act (2004) 23
2.3.1.4 Places to Grow Act (2005) 26
2.3.2 Ontario’s Planning System: Outcomes and the Protection of Farmland 26
2.4 Québec: Protecting Prime Agricultural Land and Integrating Strategic Development Planning for Agricultural Development 27
2.4.1 Québec’s Legislative Basis for Preserving Farmland and Farm Activities 27
2.4.2 Planning Agricultural Development in the Agricultural Reserves 28
2.5 Conclusion 29
References 30
3 Managing Urban and Rural Agricultural Landscape Processes in Japan 33
3.1 Change of the Positioning of Agriculture in Urban and Rural Areas 33
3.1.1 Positioning of Farmland at the Time of the City Planning Act (1968) and the Act on Establishment of Agricultural Promotion Regions (1969) 33
3.1.2 Revision of the Productive Green Space Act (1991) 35
3.2 Current Situation of Urban and Rural Agriculture 37
3.2.1 Problems in the Periods of Population Decline 37
3.2.2 Expectation of Urban Agriculture by Urban Inhabitants and Enhancement of Citizen’s Awareness of the Environment 38
3.3 Recent Measures for the Promotion of Urban Agriculture 40
3.3.1 Established Act and Plan for Urban Agriculture 40
3.3.2 Future Challenges and Perspectives of Urban Agriculture and Urban Farmland 43
3.4 Recent Measures for Promotion of Agriculture in Rural Areas 44
3.4.1 Established Act and Plan of Agriculture 44
3.4.2 Future Challenges and Perspectives of Agriculture and Farmlands in Rural Areas 48
3.5 Conclusion 48
References 49
4 Cities Linked Through Food Trans-Boundaries: The Case of Singapore as an Agri-Pelago 51
4.1 Singapore’s Food Security 51
4.2 Land Scarcity and High-Tech Alternatives 52
4.3 Food Source Diversification & Competition
4.3.1 The Hinterlands in Malaysia 56
4.3.2 Jakarta: Indonesia’s Megacity 58
4.3.3 Localism in Australia 60
4.3.4 Renting Land in China 61
4.3.5 One Island in an Agri-Pelago 62
4.4 Conclusion 63
References 63
Governing the Agro-urban Spaces in Europe 67
5 Contraposition, Juxtaposition, and Transposition of the Urban and the Rural 68
5.1 The Urban and the Rural 68
5.2 Blurring Boundaries: Urban-Rural Morphologies 71
5.3 Looking at Practices of Transposition 72
5.4 Conclusions: Still in Need of Knowing What Is Rural (?) 74
References 75
6 Towards and Effective Implementation of Green Infrastructure in Rural Areas. Challenges and Options for a Substantial Integration with Spatial Planning 77
6.1 Introduction 77
6.2 Green Infrastructure in Europe: Concepts and Objectives 78
6.2.1 The Planning Component 78
6.2.2 Multifunctionality in Practice: The Delivery of Multiple Ecosystem Services 79
6.2.3 Connectivity 82
6.3 Planning for Green Infrastructure in Agricultural Areas 83
6.4 Conclusions 86
References 87
7 Spatial Dimension of the CAP: Territorial Congruence, Supposed and Explicit Territoriality 90
7.1 CAP and Planning: Evidence of Exchanges, Interactions and Alliance 90
7.2 Spatial Evidence of the CAP: Materials, Methods and Results from the Piedmont Case Study (Italy) 93
7.2.1 Spatial-Explicit of CAP 2014–2020 in the Piedmont Region 94
7.2.2 Spatial Congruence of the Piedmont RDP 2007–2013 95
7.2.3 Supposed Territorialisation of Piedmont RDP 2014–2020 101
7.3 Discussion 106
7.4 Conclusions 108
Acknowledgements 109
References 110
8 Foodscape and Food Urbanism in Europe: The Urban-Rural Interface 112
8.1 Introduction 112
8.2 Framing the Chapter 113
8.3 Historic and Gastronomic Context 115
8.4 Urban Edges as Foodspace Today 116
8.5 Two Examples from European Applied Research 120
8.5.1 Retrofitting for Food in Hatfield, Hertfordshire 120
8.5.2 Rural-Urban Edge, Montpelier and Florence 121
8.6 The Chapter in Review 124
References 124
Agrourbanism Forms and Places 133
9 Urban Agriculture Forms in Europe 134
9.1 Introduction 134
9.2 Definition and Typology of Urban Agriculture 135
9.3 Distribution of Forms 137
9.3.1 Mapping Urban Food Gardening 137
9.3.2 Aspects of Innovation in Urban Food Gardening 139
9.3.3 Mapping the Evolution of Urban Farming 141
9.3.4 Aspects of Innovation in Urban Farming 143
9.3.5 Conclusions 146
References 147
10 Agricultural Park in Europe as Tool for Agri-Urban Policies and Design: A Critical Overview 149
10.1 Introduction: Framework of Reference 149
10.2 Genesis, Evolution and Basic Features of the Peri-urban Agricultural Park Model 151
10.2.1 Origins and Development of the Concept 151
10.3 Peri-urban Agricultural Parks in the European Context. Some Regional Cases 156
10.3.1 Spain 156
10.3.2 France 157
10.3.3 Italy 160
10.4 Discussion 163
10.5 Final Remarks 165
References 166
11 Urban Agriculture in Urban Food Policies: Debate and Practices 170
11.1 Introduction 170
11.2 Urban Agriculture as Part of Urban Food Systems 170
11.3 The Emergence of Urban Food Strategies 172
11.4 Urban Food Policies and Urban Agriculture: The Debate 174
11.5 Which Scales and Dimensions of Urban Agriculture in Urban Food Policies? 176
11.5.1 Microscale 177
11.5.2 Mesoscale 179
11.5.3 Macroscale 180
11.6 Concluding Remarks 181
References 181
12 Preserving and Restoring Italian Traditional Rural Landscapes. Addresses from Social Perception to Spatial Planning, Policies and Research 185
12.1 Traditional Rural Landscapes in Marginal Territories: Common Values and Threats 185
12.2 Relevance of Population Consultation in Rural Policy-Making and Planning 187
12.3 Framing the Methodology: The Case Study of the Traditional Rural Landscape of the Morainic Amphitheatre of Ivrea 189
12.3.1 The Study Area 189
12.3.2 Aims and Methodology 191
12.4 Results 192
12.4.1 Farmers’ Perception of Their Landscaping Action. Between Tenacious Pride and Partial Unconsciousness 192
12.4.2 Landscape as an Income Factor for Farmers? the Perceived Role of Disjoined Policies, Generational Discontinuity and New Farmers 193
12.4.3 Suggestions Addresses to Planning and Policy-Making Concerning Marginal Traditional Rural Landscape 194
12.5 Main Findings and Conclusions: Policies, Plans and Regulations Affecting Farmers’ Landscaping Action 196
References 199
Agrourbanism Functions and Tools 202
13 Towards Countryside Revival: Reducing Impacts of Urban Expansion on Land Benefits 203
13.1 Urban Expansion and Ecosystem Services Assessment 203
13.2 Lessons Learned from ES-Based Applications in Italy 209
13.3 What’s Next? Looking Beyond the Ecosystem Services-Based Approach 212
References 213
14 Ecosystems Services and Spatial Planning: Lessons Learned from the Life SAM4CP Project 219
14.1 Land Consumption and Spatial Planning 219
14.1.1 The Project LIFE?+?Soil Administration Model 4 Community Profit 220
14.1.2 The Government of Sustainable Changes of Land Use 221
14.1.2.1 Sharing Knowledge and Building Consensus 222
14.2 Ecosystem Services Paradigm for Integrating Spatial Planning and Environmental Assessment 223
14.2.1 Methodology 223
14.2.1.1 The Context of Study 226
14.2.2 Results and Discussion: The Distribution of the Ecosystem Service Value 229
14.3 Conclusions 233
References 234
15 Spatial Tools to Renew the Planning Paradigm Through Metropolitan Agriculture. The Case Study of Turin (Italy) 237
15.1 Introduction 237
15.2 Methodological Approach 239
15.2.1 Description and Evolution of the Study Area 239
15.2.2 The Construction of a Cognitive Framework of UA in the TMA 241
15.2.3 The Construction of an Interpretative Framework of UA in the TMA 243
15.3 Results 246
15.3.1 Cognitive Framework 246
15.3.2 Interpretative Framework 247
15.4 Discussion 249
15.5 Conclusions 251
Acknowledgements 253
References 253
16 Conclusion: Ten Good Reasons to Foster an Innovative Vision of Agrarian Urbanism in Europe 255
16.1 Contrasting Land Consumption and Reducing Land Degradation 255
16.2 Restating the Role of Agriculture in the Urban Environment 256
16.3 Strengthening the Urban-Rural Bond 257
16.4 (Re)-Assigning Value to the Food Supply Chain 257
16.5 Reviving Green and Blue Infrastructural Networks 258
16.6 Strengthening Agroecosystem Services and Reducing Disservices 259
16.7 Revitalising Rural Areas and Preventing Abandonment of Farmland 259
16.8 Stating the Social Role of Farmers 260
16.9 (Re)Assigning Historical and Identity Values to Cultural and Traditional Agricultural and Rural Landscapes 261
16.10 Improving Wellbeing and Quality of Life 261
References 263

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 3.8.2018
• Reihe/Serie: GeoJournal Library
• Reihe/Serie: GeoJournal Library
• Zusatzinfo: VIII, 270 p. 31 illus., 24 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Abandonment of Rural Areas • Agrarian Landscape • Agrarian Urbanism • Agrourbanism • Common Agricultural Policy • Food planning • Foodscape • Innovation Domains • Land Consumption • landscape indicators • Periurban Agriculture • Planning Role • Rural Development Plans • Rural Landscape • Rural Planning • Services of Agroecosystems • Shrinkages • Urban Agriculture • Urban-rural Linkages
• ISBN-10: 3-319-95576-4 / 3319955764
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-95576-6 / 9783319955766